vacation photos

so sorry if you hate to look at other peoples vacation photos as I have a bunch for you. It was a wet week, tons of rain and for some reason my son never managed to adjust, he was either sick or just anxious... hard to tell which as he still doesn't communicate that kind of thing.... all he wanted to do was walk... we hiked 5 miles a day to keep him content, well as content as he could be. We'd had soooo much rain that hiking the trails to the pond was like walking in creek beds....

walking, more walking

then even more walking too

blisters by weekend

 

 

happy Friday to all you Haiku my heart people....

Most of my photos don't show how lush and wet and green everything was.... so much moss and ferns!

and if you're still with me I do have some art to show for paint party Friday and the last week of Color of Summer....

I thought it was done but now that I see it on here it definitely needs something more.... i'll get on that once it cools down a bit, it's too hot to function the last few days.... have a good week all!

Lime green and purple

I couldn't help but do another mandala this week, it's the most calming thing to paint for me... no rules really, no expected outcome, just experimenting... it's just hard to know when to quit...

 

 And  I doodled a girl in my sketchbook as well...

 

 

 

And here's tiny turtle to say hello...I was going to sketch him but never got to it because after putting the mandala up on the wall and staring at it ... I realized it needed more payne's gray (even though I am trying to stay away from black lines... my mandalas are more lighter and looser than last year, I still couldn't resist, it just didn't look done) and I hadn't actually done the bit of orange evenly...

 So here's the final mandala with more added bits and more contrast...

Oh and I did measure... it's 14x17"

 

 

Happy Summer of Color week 3!

orange and hot pink

This week at summer of color the colors are orange and hot pink... I didn't think I would have any shoes or outfits to match this week, not that that was a requirement but I got so many comments on my shoes last week that I thought I'd try to pull an outfit together, which is actually even harder when you don't like to photograph yourself.....camera shy and all....
so here's a necklace I made up last night...
I have had the beads since highschool (over 30 years ago), I bought them in a bead store in Pittsford, NY and may have made them into a necklace at one time or another but they were just sitting in my stash now, I have a huge messy collection of unorganized beads and findings. I would love to get them organized, it would easier to create but it's so far down on the to-do list it will probably never happen. Besides, you can create beauty out of chaos...

This mandala is much bigger than my usual 8x10 ones.... more like 11x16 I think or even bigger actually... I am almost late for work or I would measure...
see you next week!

citron and turquoise

The Summer of Color is here again...

and I  just don't have many words this morning...

it's rainy,

I am tired,

my adorable cute new puppy is yipping for attention,

I am headed off to a dreary day.....

 

 

oh wait...

I need to take my own advice...

and....

CHIN UP BUTTERCUP!

summer of color

here's my last mandala inspired by the summer of color icecream choice, which was watermelon this week.....

Since I've been making the mandalas kind of backward lately, by doing the lines first, I thought I might make them into a digital coloring book or something for my etsy shop.   So they could be downloaded and people could color them in with pens, colored pencils or watercolors. Just a thought....